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Description
An Instant Sunday Times bestseller
'A sexy, frank and delectable memoir' The New York Times
'An instant, hedonistic culinary classic' The London Standard
'It's the two best things in the world: food and sex'
Slutty Cheff is an anonymous London chef who knows what it's really like to work in the capital's hectic restaurant scene.
From working sixty-hour weeks in windowless kitchens and being the only woman in the changing room to the pure thrill of a busy service, falling in love with other chefs and cycling home through a city bubbling over with potential, Slutty Cheff's misadventures in food and sex are about experiencing and embracing life to the fullest. The pleasure and the chaos included . . .
An exquisite broth of raw Anthony Bourdain-style honesty with a pinch of the sharp wit of Lena Dunham's Girls, Tart Is THE book for those who like to eat and f**k.
*****
'Audacious yet vulnerable' Kate Nash
'A startlingly gripping and funny glimpse into what goes on behind the kitchen doors, with sauce of all kinds oozing from every page' Ed Gamble
'A book every young cook should read' Angela Hartnett
'I devoured this book like a ravenous customer and I love it wildly. It's the most visceral food and sex writing out there – utterly delicious and utterly new.' Lena Dunham
'A young Anthony Bourdain which we haven't seen in female food writing before – visceral, hedonistic and gutsy' Dolly Alderton
'I don't know whether to be hungry or horny – I absolutely inhaled this book either way' Angela Hui
'One great sweaty, sweary, sexy ride' Marina O'Loughlin
'Perfect' Max Rocha
Product details
Published | 17 Jul 2025 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 336 |
ISBN | 9781526682710 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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[A] sexy, frank, delectable memoir… One of the delights of Tart is a vivid, vicarious sense of being young and in love – with food, with sex, with life and, most of all, with London itself. Tart is a book about appetites, elegant and refined at times, at others visceral and heartfelt and crude. It's a Rabelaisian romp, a dive into no-holds-barred gourmandise. But it's also a serious work; despite her rollicking spirit, Slutty Cheff isn't kidding around. Her real subject is the intersection of work and love, and what it means to have a true calling. Whether hers is writing, cooking or both remains to be seen, but I'll gladly stick around to find out.
The New York Times
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I devoured this book like a ravenous customer and I love it wildly. It's the most visceral food and sex writing out there - utterly delicious and utterly new.
Lena Dunham
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A young Anthony Bourdain which we haven't seen in female food writing before - visceral, hedonistic and gutsy
Dolly Alderton
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A startlingly gripping and funny glimpse into what goes on behind the kitchen doors, with sauce of all kinds oozing from every page. Deft and confident writing as sharp as a chef's knife that made me gasp, laugh and blush all at the same time. In another imagined life, I am a chef and this book made me yearn for that and simultaneously very glad that I'm not.
Ed Gamble
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Slutty Cheff is an exhilarating new voice, as spiky and eye-opening as Fernet Branca. And her book is one great sweaty, sweary, sexy ride.
Marina O'Loughlin
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I don't know whether to be hungry or horny - I absolutely inhaled this book either way.
Angela Hui